Bill...

If he is serious about certification, he will not rush to take the VFP tests. That MCSD track is obselete. If he is serious, he will go the .NET route.


>Heya Kevin -
>I'm sure you did not mean a 'MVP' certification, right ?
>MCSD, MCDBA, etc etc.
>IF you are serious about an MCSD with VFP, get cracking -
>the 2 VFP exams expire on the 30th of June .
>if you do the matrix properly -
>you can do 2 certs in 6 exams [MCDBA and MCSD] .
>but ? the MCSD cert is going away, as well .
>
>DO SUGGEST YOU GET CRACKING ON IT if you are serious.
>if not ? then don't bother.
>That really did not answer your question about 'opinions' though, at least not from me ..
>
>But ? When I have been in role of hiring or technical interviewer, I always talked to ppl WITH VFP experience who had an MCSD before I would talk to those without the MCSD. It was a company policy, at some places.
>
>I prefer to give programming tests during a technical interview, but
>I've been so out of it for the last 2 years ? I have no real opinion but
>something individually based on reviewing an applicants codebase and them answering fundamental VFP OOP questions. [there's other stuff, but i'm a bit rushed tonight] .
>
>with everything - YMMV. There used to be a time when an MCSD made more in the corporate world, but the trending recently shows that not to be the case.
>
>mondo regards [Bill]
>>I was at one time considering MVP certification, and have from
>>time to time continued to.
>>
>>My position is this:
>>
>>I have been developing software for almost 20 years in a variety of
>>products, with Fox/VFP for the last 10 straight.
>>
>>I can count on 2 hands the number of developers I'v met that
>>actually have a degree, or any form of certification.
>>
>>What counts most to a employer is what you can do for the company
>>through your experience. If a person has 10 years of solid development
>>experience in a language, and no degree, and is applying for a job
>>along side a person with a B.S. in CS fresh out of college with no real
>>world experience, who would you hire?
>>
>>I'v also been consulting for 5 years now on the side, and with all the companies
>>I have worked for and done business with, not one has ever asked for any credential
>>such a a certification. Some list a degree in CS as a requirement, but it has always
>>been a loose requirement, sort of a nice to have kind of thing.
>>
>>So what that leads be to beleive is that certifications are just not important to
>>someone looking to have a business need met as is getting the problem solved.
>>
>>Therefore, my question is; Why bother with the certification at all?